Scilab Function
Last update : 13/7/2005

auwrite - writes .au sound file

### Calling Sequence

  `auwrite(y,aufile)`
  `auwrite(y,Fs,aufile)`
  `auwrite(y,Fs,bits,aufile)`
  `auwrite(y,Fs,bits,method,aufile)`

### Parameters

- `y`: real vector or matrix with entries in [-1,1].
- `aufile`: string (The .au extension is appended if no extension is given)
- `Fs`: integer, frequency sampling in Hz.
- `bits`: integer, number of bits in the encoding.
- `method`: string , `'mu'` (default) or `'linear'`, encoding method.

### Description

Utility function to save `.au` sound file. `auwrite(y,aufile)` writes a sound file specified by the string aufile. The data should be arranged with one channel per column. Amplitude values outside the range [-1,+1] are ignored. Supports multi-channel data for 8-bit mu-law, and 8, 16, 32, 64 bits linear formats.

`auwrite(y,Fs,aufile)` specifies in `Fs` the sample rate of the data in Hertz.

`auwrite(y,Fs,bits,aufile)` selects the number of bits in the encoder. Allowable settings are bits in [8,16,32,64]. `auwrite(y,Fs,bits,method,aufile)` allows selection of the encoding method, which can be either 'mu' or 'linear'. Note that bits must be 8 for 'mu' choice. The default method is 8-bits mu-law enconding.

### Examples

      A=matrix(1:6,2,3);
      auwrite(A/6,22050,64,'linear',TMPDIR+'/foo.au');
      B=auread(TMPDIR+'/foo.au');
      maxi(abs(A- round(B*6)))

### See Also

`auread`, `wavread`, `savewave`, `analyze`, `mapsound`,